Video Bar Link

If you go to my video bar, there is a link to the youtube video we made relating to the book we read. This book was entitled "Letters to a Young Teacher," but Jonathan Kozol. Hope you enjoy.

Career Lecture

A couple weeks ago, I attended a lecture that was designed to help students know where they could go from the major they have chosen. I found this very interesting, because I only assumed I could be a teacher with a teaching major. I was happy to learn that there is a variety of jobs I could do. I could be a school counselor, or a specialized teacher such as a reading teacher. I think this has made me not so scared of being stuck in a classroom the rest of my life.

Joy movie

A couple days ago my mom sent me this movie called "They Joy Movie." I think it ties into our section on Motivation. A lot of the quotes in here can be related to teachers.

http://www.thejoymovie.com/

Group presentation

I would also like to comment that I am very excited for our groups movie. We have been working very hard on it and plan on filming it tomorrow. Hopefully people like our humor. :)
I'm excited to see how everyone else's turns out to!

Lecture-Chalk movie

Tonight in lecture we watched a pretty entertaining movie. It was about teachers in a school and it showed how they acted to their students. Their sarcasm was hilarious. However, I think it's important to remember that sarcasm isn't always appropriate. Teachers need to know when to use it and when not to.
Only thing I didn't like about the movie was the statistic that 50% of teachers quite within the first 3 years. That's not very reassuring...

Motivational Framework

In class on wednesday we talked about motivational framework. I found this to be pretty interesting. What I learned is that there are 4 types, External, Humanisitc, Cognitive, and Socialcultural. The three I found most interesting were the first three. External would be something you do for yourself. Our profesor talked about how one summer he decided it wasn't important to make money, and traveled around the U.S on $100. Humanisitc would be something you do for others, such as habitat for humanity. Cognitive would be something like learning about a subject your interested in and not worrying about the grade you recieve.

I think it is important as future teachers to understand how people are motivated. Each person is different, and I think it's a key part of learning to figure out how your students are motivated best.

Divided Classroom movie link

Earlier I had a blog entry on the movie "The divided classroom." Here is a link to that movie if anyone is curious and wants to watch it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8gCJ4K4tnE